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November 2019

4 Nov

Azure Private Link is now available in all regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Private Link, which provides private connectivity to Azure services, is now available in all regions.

  • Azure Private Link
  • Virtual Network
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Security
  • Regions & Datacenters
4 Nov

Introducing Azure Synapse Analytics: A limitless analytics service with unmatched time to insight

NOW AVAILABLE

Today, we are announcing Azure Synapse Analytics, a limitless analytics service, that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources, at scale.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Services

October 2019

3 Oct

Azure Data Share—Support for sharing data from Azure SQL and SQL Data Warehouse

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Share service has added support for snapshot-based sharing from Azure SQL Database and SQL Data Warehouse. It is now possible to share both structured data (from Azure SQL and SQL DW) and unstructured data (from Azure Data Lake Store and Blob storage) with centralised management and governance.

  • Azure Data Share
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Features
2 Oct

Private Link for Azure SQL Database and Data Warehouse is now in preview

IN PREVIEW

Private Link enables you to connect to Azure SQL Database and Data Warehouse via a private endpoint.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features

September 2019

18 Sep

Copy Activity in Azure Data Factory supports creating a destination table automatically

NOW AVAILABLE

Load data faster with new support from the Copy Activity feature in Azure Data Factory. Now, if you are trying to copy data from any supported source into SQL database/data warehouse and find that the destination table does not exist, Copy Activity will create it automatically.

  • Data Factory
  • Features
16 Sep

Azure Private Link is now available in preview

IN PREVIEW

Target availability: Q3 2019

Connect to services in your Azure virtual networks more securely and privately with Azure Private Link, now available in preview.

  • Virtual Network
  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Compliance
  • Security
  • Regions & Datacenters
  • Services
  • Features
9 Sep

Copy data from Netezza to Azure with Azure Data Factory

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Factory now provides built-in data partitioning to copy data from Netezza.

  • Data Factory
  • Features
6 Sep

SQL Server Data Tools is now available with Visual Studio 2019 Preview

IN PREVIEW

SQL Server Data Tools preview for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now downloadable with the latest preview release of Visual Studio 2019. SQL Server Data Tools enables a stable change management and deployment experience when developing your data analytics solution using SQL Data Warehouse.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Features
4 Sep

Reserved Capacity for Azure SQL Data Warehouse Now Available in Additional 18 Regions

NOW AVAILABLE

Today, we are announcing Reserved Capacity for SQL Data Warehouse in an additional 18 regions.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings

August 2019

8 Aug

Azure Firewall feature updates for July 2019

NOW AVAILABLE

Here are the Azure Firewall feature updates for July 2019.

  • Azure Firewall
  • Virtual Network
  • Security
  • Services
  • Features

June 2019

26 Jun

Azure Data Factory enriches PolyBase support for loading data into SQL DW

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Data Factory seamlessly integrates with Polybase to empower you to ingest data into SQL DW performantly. ADF now adds support for loading data from ADLS Gen2 and from Blob with VNet service endpoint using PolyBase.

  • Data Factory
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Features
12 Jun

Enhanced experience for Azure Advisor security recommendations

NOW AVAILABLE

Manage your Security Center recommendations through Advisor UI, API, CLI or PowerShell. Remediate recommendations quickly with bulk actions. Follow more than 20 new best practice recommendations for availability, performance and cost.

  • Azure Advisor
  • Services
  • Management
  • Features

May 2019

9 May

Corrected billing for Azure SQL Data Warehouse and other Azure services

We have corrected billing for Azure SQL Data Warehouse and other Azure services that impacted EA customers only.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • HDInsight
  • Virtual Machines
  • Services
8 May

Result-set Caching for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now in preview

IN PREVIEW

Result-set caching enables instant query response times while reducing time-to-insight for business analysts and reporting users

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Features
8 May

Dynamic Data Masking for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now in preview

IN PREVIEW

Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) prevents unauthorised access to your sensitive data in your data warehouse by obfuscating it on-the-fly in the query results, based on the masking rules you define.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Features
8 May

JSON data support for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now in preview

IN PREVIEW

Business analysts can now use familiar T-SQL language to query and manipulate documents that are formatted as JSON data

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Features
8 May

Ordered Clustered Columnstore Indexes for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now in preview

IN PREVIEW

Columnstore is a key enabler for storing and efficiently querying large amounts of data.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Features
8 May

Workload Importance for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Workload Management Classification and Importance provide the ability to influence the run order of queries.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Features

April 2019

19 Apr

Reserved Capacity Pricing for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now generally available

NOW AVAILABLE

Starting today, you can now use the Azure SQL Data Warehouse Reserved Capacity pricing to reserve compute power for existing and future clusters. This option provides you savings up to 65% cDWU capacity.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Services
  • Pricing & Offerings

March 2019

28 Mar

Public preview: Data Discovery & Classification for Azure SQL Data Warehouse

IN PREVIEW

Data Discovery & Classification is now available in public preview for Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Security
  • Features

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